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TLDR: Limbo presents an intense, monochrome edit of Dunkirk as a non-stop series of events involving only the perspectives of soldiers at the beach. This is NOT a silent film since music, background voices, and sounds of stress still remain. But key dialogue are removed to serve the creative decisions.
Background:
Maple Films’ “Finest Hour” is clearly one of the best fanedit supercuts ever made. It just shows you how creative editors themselves contribute meaningful perspectives to the cinema canon. There’s nothing touching that, and I’m not planning on ever getting to that level.
When I revisited Dunkirk, I felt it was a top 3 Nolan movie. It did everything you know Nolan does- the characters longing out of situations, the three-arc intercutting climaxes, the whole time-dilation mindfuckery thing he does- all the greatest hits. He does them very well. Though I thought, what if we kept at a singular point of view? Would it be possible to maintain the suspense and intensity if we just stayed with the characters on the beach? That was where this edit came from. I went the opposite way from the Maple Films’ magnum opus, maximalist dramatic approach- I went with action, high-octane, boots-on-the-sand approach.
Main Changes:
This became a difficult, yet most rewarding fanedit I worked on so far. There were many audio tricks and manipulation I had to learn on the way, but I felt like I did the best I could. At some point I ended up downloading “water stream ASMR” and “ASMR boat sounds” so that I can replicate water coming into bullet holes of the trawler- crazy stuff like that. The challenge of no dialogue truly brought out a lot of creativity throughout the process.
Having said that, I work on all my fanedits on my personal laptop. It’s the only one I have. It’s a small ASUS laptop which I’ve had for almost 7 years now, and let me tell ya. It took me a whole FULL day (actually like 6 hours) to render, encode, and export this edit. It never usually takes that long, but I found out that having adjusted it to black and whites effects, AND the fact that it was a 4K source really put Premiere Pro to work. Limbo was the final straw. I’m getting a new machine.
Poster:
It was hard to narrow down a whole movie into one poster. I didn’t think it was appropriate to focus the poster on a single character even though we do follow one soldier throughout. The movie itself and how it expressed those events were representative of the soldiers as a collective and their shared trauma and experiences. I felt that Nolan really did treat those “characters” more like “subjects” which is totally fine- Dunkirk had tones of feeling a documentary in a lot of ways. To get to the point, I just extracted images I liked from the movie. I took as many striking images I could and slapped them on a grid That was it. No big deal.
Please let me know if you’re interested on providing feedback and maybe pointing out things I missed. Also, Happy Barbenheimer month!
Background:
Maple Films’ “Finest Hour” is clearly one of the best fanedit supercuts ever made. It just shows you how creative editors themselves contribute meaningful perspectives to the cinema canon. There’s nothing touching that, and I’m not planning on ever getting to that level.
When I revisited Dunkirk, I felt it was a top 3 Nolan movie. It did everything you know Nolan does- the characters longing out of situations, the three-arc intercutting climaxes, the whole time-dilation mindfuckery thing he does- all the greatest hits. He does them very well. Though I thought, what if we kept at a singular point of view? Would it be possible to maintain the suspense and intensity if we just stayed with the characters on the beach? That was where this edit came from. I went the opposite way from the Maple Films’ magnum opus, maximalist dramatic approach- I went with action, high-octane, boots-on-the-sand approach.
Main Changes:
- Added 1930’s WB logo animation at the beginning.
- Movie adjusted for monochrome black and white. Small adjustment to emphasize certain tones.
- Changed beginning text to “Silentina”, a typeface used on silent films.
- Removed all scenes involving Mark Rylance, the boys, and “The Sea.”
- Removed most scenes involving Tom Hardy, Jack Lowden, and “The Air.”
- Removed most of Sir Kenneth Branagh scenes.
- Removed dialogue. Some key dialogue replaced with intertitles (like in old silent films), which was fun to pull off.
- In the epilogue as Tommy is reading the newspaper in the train, the movie transitions to color. When Tommy reads Churchill’s remarks, I kept that audio in for effect up until the end.
This became a difficult, yet most rewarding fanedit I worked on so far. There were many audio tricks and manipulation I had to learn on the way, but I felt like I did the best I could. At some point I ended up downloading “water stream ASMR” and “ASMR boat sounds” so that I can replicate water coming into bullet holes of the trawler- crazy stuff like that. The challenge of no dialogue truly brought out a lot of creativity throughout the process.
Having said that, I work on all my fanedits on my personal laptop. It’s the only one I have. It’s a small ASUS laptop which I’ve had for almost 7 years now, and let me tell ya. It took me a whole FULL day (actually like 6 hours) to render, encode, and export this edit. It never usually takes that long, but I found out that having adjusted it to black and whites effects, AND the fact that it was a 4K source really put Premiere Pro to work. Limbo was the final straw. I’m getting a new machine.
Poster:
It was hard to narrow down a whole movie into one poster. I didn’t think it was appropriate to focus the poster on a single character even though we do follow one soldier throughout. The movie itself and how it expressed those events were representative of the soldiers as a collective and their shared trauma and experiences. I felt that Nolan really did treat those “characters” more like “subjects” which is totally fine- Dunkirk had tones of feeling a documentary in a lot of ways. To get to the point, I just extracted images I liked from the movie. I took as many striking images I could and slapped them on a grid That was it. No big deal.
Please let me know if you’re interested on providing feedback and maybe pointing out things I missed. Also, Happy Barbenheimer month!
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